My thoughts on this aren't as cut and dried as my initial knee-jerk reaction, which is to agree with staying in the EU.

That reaction is born from a response to racism. My family had to deal with a lot of it when I first returned to Britain and it bores me to death. The ridiculous reasons I have heard for getting out include: Having tough soldiers, having a great literary tradition and straight bananas. As I understand it, unless we intend to occupy Brussels and beat them into surrender with Shakespeare recitals, these have no relevance. The straight banana story remains the archetypal Euromyth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromyth .

I want live bees, and when my government officials want to kill them, unduly influenced by private corporations, I want someone to be able to step in.

So far I am for staying.

But there are things I don't like; TTIP for one, a big, nasty,obscure piece of legislation to which we should not agree. And of course, 'Ever Closer Union' sounds a bit tentacular, a bit Smersh.

Putting on my wee trader hat, ignoring preference in order think about the money. I want to be able to trade in the market, and be part of the decision making processes regarding that market. I am influenced by the city traders, the FTSE analysis, the Financial Times who all see leaving as a bad move. I note that Boris' declaration sent the pound down to its lowest level in years. And I think hard; this isn't fear, this is about working in markets that like stability and while I am very ready to pay taxes to protect our society in all its needs, I don't much fancy my hard-earned greenies being put on the line for some idiot rolling around in a union jack pretending to be a sausage roll. Show me guarantees, not hopes. 'Outers' claim we can make new deals, well of course we can. But we will have to, and that is never a great position to start from;nothing worse than bargaining with someone who knows you have to make the sale.

There is more, but I think I will stop here. I think my decision is made, heart and head agreeing.